Re: [Cooker] Nothing about Linux, but it's too nice!!! [WAS: weird Windows 2000/XP bug]

From: David Durham (david.durhamat_private)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 07:32:14 PST

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    Well.. I tried this on a 2000 machine with cygwin and gcc  and changed
    the include line to #include <stdio.h>, but it didn't do anything
    special...
    
    Exactly what compiler and what circumstances?
    
    On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 12:16, Claudio wrote:
    > I know it's not a Cooker-subject, but it's too comic and I want you to smile 
    > with me  ;o)))
    > Have a nice weekend!
    > 
    > 		Claudio
    > 
    > 
    > -------- Original Message --------
    > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:19:47 +0200
    > From: Teodor Cimpoesu
    > To: vuln-devat_private
    > Subject: weird Windows 2000/XP bug
    > 
    > Some guys arround here are having fun with a little C program which causes
    > Windows200/XP to reboot:
    > 
    > #include
    > 
    > int main(void)
    > {
    >    while (1)
    >       printf("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");
    >    return 0;
    > }
    > 
    > I don't know exactly where it was first seen, and who discovered it; just
    > thought to forward it here maybe others have insights.
    > 
    > comments?
    > 
    



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